We love the outdoor campus west! It is FREE. You can walk on the trial or hang out inside of the building which is kid friendly!
This is a very great and fun place for kids and adults. I used to volunteer here when it first opened and got to see the ribbon cutting, I can definitely say the people that work here and volunteer are amazing! They have kids classes and adult classes and the best part is it's free! I would definitely take your kids here to see the animals and learn some stuff or take a class.
Learning while exercising
If I weren't creeped out by the grisly reproductions of living scenes through the posing of animal corpses, it would be a fascinating experience.
This is a ridiculously biased review. If someone who loves hunting and taxidermied animals wrote it, it would be far different. I'm not a native South Dakotan, and my idea of honoring nature isn't killing it and eating it or artificially preserving and displaying it. Wow. The OCW teaches a love of nature through, in part, shooting it with bows and arrows. That still stuns me. And I want to weep at all the dead animals on display there.
Lots of programs for all ages. Excellent taxidermy. Super helpful staff. Great place to go learn what it was like b4 the phone screen epidemic. Basic human survival. Something that is missing in today's world.
In all fairness, though, the space (minus the glassy-eyed, taxidermied wildlife) is beautiful and they do more than highlight the many ways of eating nature. The interactive educational and video information is fascinating, and the staff is always kind.
The Outdoor Campus West is a US Aquarium based in Rapid City, South Dakota. The Outdoor Campus West is located at Adventure Trail, Rapid City, SD 57702, USA.
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